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Gunman Carefully Planned Attack on Discovery Channel

By David LohrSep 2nd 2010 – 12:41PM
Chip Py, AP

Chip Py, AP

(Sept. 2) -- The attacker who held three employees hostage at the Discovery Communications headquarters before being shot to death by police told an NBC producer during the siege that he had spent about a month planning the attack. "I did a lot of research. I had to experiment," James J. Lee told the producer, according...

'My Ishmael': The Book That Inspired the Alleged Discovery Channel Gunman?

By Katie DrummondSep 2nd 2010 – 9:45AM

(Sept. 2) -- "My Ishmael," a 1997 novel by American author and environmentalist Daniel Quinn, gets top billing in the manifesto of Discovery TV gunman James Jae Lee, which is being widely circulated online after Lee held the company's Washington headquarters hostage on Wednesday. "The Discovery Channel and it's [sic]...

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Background on daniel quinn

Daniel Quinn (born 11 October 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American writer described as an environmentalist and best known for his novel Ishmael (published in 1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991.

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